About Us

AQRate Verification Services is a Broad-Based BEE verification brand consisting of 4 private companies with shared ownership, management, verification methodology, commitment to transformation and an ethos of "independent, credible, assurance".

The brand came to be in June 2009 following an unbundling of shareholding in the National Empowerment Rating Agency (NERA) holding entity which saw two of the then three accredited verification agencies in the NERA group re-brand to AQRate (Pty) Ltd (previously NERA - Western Cape) and AQRate KZN (Pty) Ltd (previously NERA - KZN). The previous NERA office in Limpopo also rebranded to AQRate. AQRate Gauteng commenced business during June 2009.

AQRate is a SANAS accredited verification agency

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As such, an AQRate rating is official recognition that your organisation is in compliance with the Broad Based Black Economic BEE Empowerment Act and the Codes of Good Practice. We are the only verification agency brand that has been accredited to deliver BEE verification services in more than one geographical location in South Africa. Both our Cape Town and Kwazulu Natal offices have been independently accredited by the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) as part of the very first batch of 11 verification agencies to be accredited in South Africa in February 2009. Our Gauteng office is in the process of accreditation and we hope to have both it and our Limpopo office accredited prior to the end of 2009. This national presence affords AQRate the market presence associated with a true market leader and national player.

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